Kubernetes Contracts in Edinburgh

Kubernetes (k8s)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Kubernetes skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kubernetes over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 63 37
Rank change year-on-year +13 -26 +9
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 21 50 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.60% 3.88% 5.97%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.58% 19.31% 44.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 35 79
10th Percentile £443 £425 £410
25th Percentile £497 £429 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.74% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £527 £696
90th Percentile £639 £600 £800
Scotland median daily rate £507 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -7.40% -0.45% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate - £60.55 £46.32
% change year-on-year - +30.72% -

All Systems Management Skills
Edinburgh

Kubernetes is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 93 259 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 11.50% 20.08% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 194 184
10th Percentile £268 £246 £290
25th Percentile £429 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £479 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% -6.58% +13.94%
75th Percentile £634 £524 £603
90th Percentile £688 £560 £713
Scotland median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £21.30 £26.00
25th Percentile £15.10 £21.36 £35.00
Median hourly rate £15.97 £21.47 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.60% -50.94% -
75th Percentile £16.85 £21.57 £48.75
90th Percentile - £21.63 -
Scotland median hourly rate £37.99 £56.25 £44.82
% change year-on-year -32.47% +25.50% -32.09%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Edinburgh

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Edinburgh

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Edinburgh

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) Apache
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 17 (80.95%) AWS
2 13 (61.90%) OpenShift
3 9 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (23.81%) Amazon S3
4 5 (23.81%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (23.81%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (23.81%) Serverless
5 4 (19.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (9.52%) Azure
8 1 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (4.76%) GCP
8 1 (4.76%) npm
8 1 (4.76%) Rekognition
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.76%) Big Data
3 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.76%) Flink
3 1 (4.76%) InfluxDB
3 1 (4.76%) MariaDB
3 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.76%) MySQL
3 1 (4.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (61.90%) Jenkins
2 9 (42.86%) Maven
3 8 (38.10%) Gradle
4 7 (33.33%) Git
5 4 (19.05%) Artifactory
5 4 (19.05%) GitLab
6 1 (4.76%) Capybara
6 1 (4.76%) CircleCI
6 1 (4.76%) gulp
6 1 (4.76%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (4.76%) TeamCity
6 1 (4.76%) Travis CI
General
1 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 7 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) AWS DevOps
2 5 (23.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Site Manager
2 5 (23.81%) Site Reliability Manager
3 4 (19.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Developer
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Lead
6 1 (4.76%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Python Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.76%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.76%) React
2 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.76%) TensorFlow
2 1 (4.76%) WebKit
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 3 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (52.38%) Linux
2 6 (28.57%) Unix
2 6 (28.57%) Windows
3 4 (19.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (19.05%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 11 (52.38%) DevOps
3 8 (38.10%) Deployment Automation
3 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (28.57%) Agile
5 6 (28.57%) Application Security
5 6 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (28.57%) OWASP
6 5 (23.81%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (23.81%) Service-Level Objective
6 5 (23.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
8 3 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
8 3 (14.29%) Data Protection
8 3 (14.29%) Machine Learning
9 2 (9.52%) Capacity Planning
9 2 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) Python
2 13 (61.90%) Bash
3 11 (52.38%) Groovy
4 10 (47.62%) Ruby
5 7 (33.33%) Shell Script
6 3 (14.29%) Java
7 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
7 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
8 1 (4.76%) C#
8 1 (4.76%) Go
8 1 (4.76%) PHP
8 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
8 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) BC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (47.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (57.14%) Ansible
1 12 (57.14%) Terraform
2 6 (28.57%) Grafana
3 4 (19.05%) Kibana
4 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Google